Mother's Day (5.8.11)

I’m in a room, a white room, waiting. For nine months I’ve been waiting. Waiting for the moment when I can hold my warm little bundle in my arms. I hear the clock chiming midnight.

Good morning world. Happy May 8!

A new wave of pain hits me and I cry out. I hear a voice counting to ten and then the cry of a newborn baby. My baby. The doctor places the crying babe in my arms. Beside the bed my husband is crying and laughing.

“What’s so funny?”

“It’s Mother’s Day! Our baby was born on Mother’s Day!”